Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data
For centuries, scientists have attempted to identify and document analytical laws that underlie physical phenomena in nature. Despite the prevalence of computing power, the process of finding natural laws and their corresponding equations has resisted automation
We propose a principle for the identification of nontriviality
Scientists have created a "Eureka machine" that can work out the laws of nature by observing the world around it – a development that could dramatically speed up the discovery of new scientific truths.
The machine took only hours to come up with the basic laws of motion, a task that occupied Sir Isaac Newton for years after he was inspired by an apple falling from a tree.
discovery of new scientific knowledge by a laboratory
robot
The robot, called Adam, devised and performed experiments to investigate the
genetics of bakers' yeast
The work marks a turning point in the way science is done
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